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From hubris to humiliation: America’s warrior class contends with the abject failure of its Afghanistan project
In The News
Twenty years ago, when the twin towers and the Pentagon were still smoldering, there was a sense among America’s warrior and diplomatic class that history was starting anew fo...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Taliban Sweep in Afghanistan Follows Years of U.S. Miscalculations
In The News
President Biden’s top advisers concede they were stunned by the rapid collapse of the Afghan army in the face of an aggressive, well-planned offensive by the Taliban that now ...
By Richard Fontaine
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CNAS Responds: The Deteriorating Situation in Afghanistan, Two Weeks from Drawdown Deadline
Press Note
The Taliban is gaining large swaths of territory, the Pentagon is moving troops in to evacuate U.S. embassy staff from Kabul, and thousands of Afghan special visa applicants a...
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'This got bungled': Biden’s two tragic Afghanistan missteps
In The News
As NatSec Daily talks to our contacts, we’re hearing two nuanced critiques of President JOE BIDEN and the quickly spiraling situation in Afghanistan. First: While the decision...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden has wanted the U.S. to pull the plug on Afghanistan for years. Doing it has consequences.
In The News
Last month, President Biden vowed that his decision to pull American forces out of Afghanistan would never end in a repeat of the infamous helicopter evacuation from the U.S. ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden Delivers on Trump’s Afghan Exit as Taliban Nears Control
In The News
Donald Trump made the politically popular pledge to bring U.S. troops home from the nation’s longest war. Now Joe Biden is delivering on the promise -- and reaping growing cri...
By Richard Fontaine
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Inside the Biden administration as Afghanistan collapses
In The News
Lisa Curtis, a former senior NSC official who sat alongside Khalilzad during the Trump administration's negotiations with the Taliban, called on the Biden administration to "e...
By Lisa Curtis
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Speed of Taliban Advance Surprises Biden Administration, Dismays U.S. Allies
When President Biden this spring announced the decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Afghanistan, his administration expected the Afghan military to defend key cities and perh...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden on Afghanistan: Not my problem
In The News
As the Taliban blitz across Afghanistan and U.S. officials scramble to assess just how quickly the government in Kabul could fall, President Joe Biden is recalibrating his mes...
By Lisa Curtis
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Taliban Advances in Afghanistan Could Bring Political Peril for Biden
In The News
When President Biden announced his plan to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, the politics seemed relatively simple: Many polls showed that Americans supported ending the ...
By Richard Fontaine
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It’s unforgivable to hold the Olympics in Beijing
In The News
It was a forgivable mistake to award an Olympics to Beijing in 2008. It’s unforgivable to hold one there now. If you want a world pocked by concentration camps, in which Xi Ji...
By David Feith
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A New Tunnel Is Spotted At A Chinese Nuclear Test Site
In The News
China appears to be expanding its sprawling nuclear weapons testing complex in the nation's western desert. Satellite imagery shared exclusively with NPR shows a possible new ...
By Lt. Gen. Robert Ashley, Jr. (Ret.)
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Fed up with the U.S., Ukraine cuts deals with China and shuts up about the Uyghurs
In The News
Frustrated with the U.S., Ukraine is cutting deals with a rival superpower, inviting China to build infrastructure while holding back criticism of Beijing's human rights recor...
By Jim Townsend
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As US troops leave Afghanistan, what will future policy look like?
In The News
As the US nears completion of its military withdrawal from Afghanistan, the Pentagon is supposed to switch to “over-the-horizon” counter-terrorist operations in the country. B...
By Dr. Jason Dempsey
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Biden opens new cyber fight with China
In The News
President Biden is putting new pressure on China by publicly attributing the wide-ranging Microsoft Exchange Server cyberattack to hackers affiliated with Beijing. The coordin...
By Lisa Curtis
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Fifty years since Kissinger's secret visit, Sino-U.S. ties now fraying fast
In The News
Fifty years since a secret visit to Beijing by then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger paved the way for American engagement with communist China, ties between the two ri...
By Jacob Stokes
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Biden administration looks to set up 'red phone' to China for emergency communications
In The News
The Biden administration is examining the possibility of setting up an emergency hotline with the Chinese government similar to the so-called "red phone" established between t...
By David Feith
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'Operation Allies Refuge' to Begin Airlifting Afghans Amid US Withdrawal
The United States this month is to begin airlifting from Afghanistan thousands of those who helped support American forces there during the past 20 years and now fear for thei...
By Lisa Curtis
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It’s Situation Normal for U.S. Diplomats in Kabul, Despite Taliban Gains
In The News
A Taliban rampage across Afghanistan is stoking fears that extremists could overrun the capital, Kabul, and force the evacuation of the U.S. Embassy. But inside the building, ...
By Lisa Curtis
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Biden is betting big on Afghanistan's air force. But their problems continue to grow.
In The News
If you think beating back a resurgent Taliban is hard, try doing it while fixing a broken helicopter over Zoom. In addition to pulling out all but a handful of troops from Afg...
By Lisa Curtis
